Almost every week I find myself having a conversation with one writer or another about why he or she needs…
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Archives for November 2008
Improve Your Nonfiction Book Writing with Journalistic Skills
Taking a break from my guest bloggers, I though today I’d treat you to a look at the similarity between…
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Agent Reveals Pet Peeves So Writers Can Avoid Them
Now that you know where to find an agent, and you know the essentials of writing a book proposal –…
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11 Ways to Find a Literary Agent
Every wanna-be author who has dreams of being picked up and published by a traditional publishing house wants to know…
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Memoir Writing: Telling Your Truth
I’ve always wanted to write a memoir. One agent even recommended that I write one of my prescriptive nonfiction books…
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How to Make Your Manuscript Compelling
Writers can never get too much advice from editors about how to improve their writing. And even editors can learn…
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Are You a Traditional Publishing Holdout or a Self-Publishing Maven?
Yesterday’s post brought up an important issue with which most nonfiction (and some fiction) authors today need to grapple: Are…
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Overcoming the Overwhelm of Becoming a First-Time Author
I often find myself struggling with simply getting started on a book project of my own. I can dig into…
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How to Make Your Prose Marketable
Today’s agenda: Learning ways to make our writing more marketable, a necessary skill for writers to learn if they are…
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